Perfect charcoal bag opening - GIF

**Jon** · Jul 28, 2019, 02:15 PM

Perfect charcoal bag opening.

Previously:

Perfect ketchup pouring - GIF
Perfect burger drop photography rig - GIF, video, and photos
Perfect auger shake cleaning - GIF
Perfect gravel distribution from truck - GIF

**KMoffett** · Jul 29, 2019, 05:12 PM

So that bag is already started. How do you select the right string on the right end.

**Drew1966** · Jul 29, 2019, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by KMoffett

So that bag in already started. How do you select the right string on the right end.

That’s the hard bit. I get chicken food in sacks sewn shut the same way and it’s easy like that maybe 25% of the time.

**trinketman** · Jul 29, 2019, 05:50 PM

Me too! Teach us something.

**KMoffett** · Jul 29, 2019, 07:20 PM

or Google: how to open a charcoal bag
I now understand, and can't wait to open something!
Ken

**jimfols** · Jul 29, 2019, 07:43 PM

Thanks for posting

**neilbourjaily@gmail.com** · Jul 29, 2019, 08:01 PM

I've opened thousands of such bags. I get 1/20 right. Those sewn closures are the devil's own trickery. There is no tell, no way to know which or where to start. Grrr.

**Toolmaker51** · Jul 29, 2019, 08:27 PM

The pressure is high in my household, always an audience, two healthy canines. So even with bi monthly practice I occasionally don't pull the right string.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/c9ab1ec...2-de2b84400a17

**suther51** · Jul 29, 2019, 08:39 PM

Delt with coal bags over the winter at work, the bags with the labels were easy. With the label facing me it was always on the left. The bags w o labels I would cut the sewn string hanging off the end of the bag and pick at the loose end of the string, 50 50 which end worked. At the feed mill I heard an old timer say to start at the end with one string hanging free. Have not had a chance to put that advice to the test yet.
Eric